Review of book -Black Skin, White Masks
Overview Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most influential books ever written on race, colonialism, identity, and psychology. Written by psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, the book explores how colonialism affects not only political and economic systems but also the minds of both the colonized and the colonizer. Drawing on psychiatry, philosophy, literature, and his own experiences as a Black man from Martinique living in France, Fanon argues that racism shapes identity in profound psychological ways. Unlike a traditional history or political treatise, the book is a philosophical and psychological investigation into how people internalize racial hierarchies. Summary Fanon argues that colonial societies teach Black people to associate whiteness with intelligence, beauty, civilization, and power while associating Blackness with inferiority. As a result, many colonized individuals unconsciously adopt the values of the colonizer, striving to imitate European language, culture, and ...